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Wednesday Morning Rant
The "Resistance" types are not going away, and are not going to be quitting on day 1. They're dug in like ticks and will do exactly what they did last time. ... I expect little to no progress in Justice, State, Treasury, EPA or any of those agencies comprising the IC.It's far too early to say "I was right" but Jack Smith is trying to make it easy on me. (Pseudo) Special Council Jack Smith, who was looking into Trump's "insurrection" for years for the Party men at Justice, has concluded in his report that he was in fact totally right and the only reason Trump is going to walk away from his egregious crimes is because he happened to get re-elected. It's your fault that justice is not done, not his. His case was airtight, you know. It's just that you rubes had to go re-elect the worst of all men to office.
The article linked above is to the BBC because I'd rather not give a domestic press outfit any clicks, but the report itself has been cached by Bloomberg. It makes for some interesting reading. First, of course, is the self-congratulation:
On the day that I was appointed, I pledged that I would exercise independent judgment, follow the best traditions of the Department of Justice, and conduct my work expeditiously and thoroughly to reach whatever outcome the facts and law dictated. With the aid of an outstanding team, that is what I did. Upon my appointment, I organized a staff of experienced career federal prosecutors, and together we conducted the investigations and subsequent prosecutions under our mandate, consistent with the Department's traditions of integrity and nonpartisanship that have guided all of us throughout our careers.Doubtless. They upheld, to the letter, to the last punctuation mark, the DoJ's traditions of integrity and nonpartisanship that it has been upholding for generations: a total lack of integrity and nonpartisanship, acting as hatchet men for the Party. They did a splendid job in upholding the DoJ's core values of skulduggery and railroading. Then, of course, there is deranged coping about the unfairness of it. It's not Jack Smith's fault that Trump is a free man, but it isn't entirely your fault, either. Some of the blame lies with Merrick Garland:
As described above, it has long been the Department's interpretation that the Constitution forbids the federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President, but the election results raised for the first time the question of the lawful course when a private citizen who has already been indicted is then elected President. The Department determined that the case must be dismissed without prejudice before Mr. Trump takes office, and the Office therefore moved to dismiss the indictment on November 25, 2024.You see, it wasn't Smith's fault, it was "The Department's" fault - that is, Garland's. Smith has hope for retribution to be imposed by someone else in the future, of course (dismissed without prejudice, rather than with), but he took the opportunity to throw his boss under the bus on his way out. That is because he is, of course, right. If not for niggling things like "the law" or "the will of the people," they totally could have made the case:
The Department's view that the Constitution prohibits the continued indictment and prosecution of a President is categorical and does not tum on the gravity of the crimes charged, the strength of the Government's proof, or the merits of the prosecution, which the Office stands fully behind.In that case, one must ask: then why isn't Trump in prison? If this case was in fact iron-clad, fully justified and with mountains of evidence behind it, why the years of dicking around instead of taking it over the finish line? Could it possibly have been because of - GASP - politics? Could it have possibly been because - and bear with me, because I know I'm going way out on a limb here - because there was never anything to it other than what Trump said about it: that it's a witch hunt? The last line truly is a thing of beauty:
Indeed, but for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial."I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids" is one hell of a closing sentence. Trump's lawyers' concluding statement objecting to the report is a bit closer to reality than anything in the report itself:
The time has come to put an end to this weaponization of the justice system and move forward constructively. No report should be prepared or released, and Smith should be removed, including for even suggesting that course of action given his obvious political motivations and desire to lawlessly undermine the transition."The Department," of course, did release the report. They can't fire Smith, though, and neither can Trump. He conveniently resigned a few days ago. So Jack Smith issued a petulant, ridiculous, self-aggrandizing work of fiction to keep the fires of hate and vengeance burning before shouting to nobody in particular, "you can't fire me! I quit!" Smith is gone, but his ilk are not. DoJ is still DoJ, and will keep on doing what it does. If Trump fires all the US Attorneys on day 1, it will help a bit - but Pam Bondi has her work cut out for her if she hopes to even make a dent in this thoroughly rotten bureau.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
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We must remember the Sean Spicer precedent where Biden successfully argued that he had the authority to fire any political appointee in the bureaucracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Half Dozen at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (uVHlT)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (MwvKQ)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:03 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: kallisto at January 15, 2025 11:03 AM (dCxaZ)
Yup.
Learn from the last time around: clear out the resistance, and fast.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 11:03 AM (u1uWe)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 11:04 AM (u1uWe)
Meh. I read Smith's moist oozing as a pathetic, impotent "last rant" as he's kicked out the door. I take it about as seriously as the guy who gets cucked by his wife and best friend, thrown out of the house with only his suitcase, and then says "well, I never really loved her anyway."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 11:04 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:04 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 15, 2025 11:05 AM (qlOo3)
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 15, 2025 11:03 AM (u1uWe)
Vultures gotta eat, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 11:05 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)
Smart.
Always open with a joke.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:04 AM (g47mK)
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Well, USAs.
And that's standard practice.
But the problem isn't the USAs, who are politically appointed, but the people who staff all the other offices who are not.
Civil Service laws that protect bureaucrats from firing by elected officials are naked unconstitutional. The establishment disagrees with me, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:05 AM (Yj6Os)
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He is, sadly, at least still drawing breath ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (jvJvP)
That's what I say.
Posted by: Pastor Joel Osteen at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (jQ+5q)
Let us pray, Smith and his ilk will get an upclose and personal visit from The Wood Chipper of Justice in the coming months.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (Xa590)
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (hDGNI)
Posted by: BignJames
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Since he was held by a court to be illegally appointed, he should be sued to claw back his and his coven's paychecks for unjust enrichment.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (ctrM5)
To be fair, we are a garbage bin of deplorables, according to our betters.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (a3Q+t)
Nope. Perhaps after a period of retribution, but for the time being, I'm quite content to let DoJ go after the Democrats.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:08 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:09 AM (19xHp)
If constructively means firing all the rats and prosecuting them
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:09 AM (VE6XX)
And that's standard practice.
But the problem isn't the USAs, who are politically appointed, but the people who staff all the other offices who are not.
Civil Service laws that protect bureaucrats from firing by elected officials are naked unconstitutional. The establishment disagrees with me, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
That's the trick ain't it. I will leave the details to professionals.
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:09 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2025 11:10 AM (wyMQY)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:10 AM (xCA6C)
That is what 2024 was a referendum on.
And all of Trump's "crimes" per Smith come from objecting to that theft.
Now its time to put everyone involved with the theft in prison...including Mr Smith.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:10 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:10 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: PaleRider at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (34pOu)
I don't expect miracles but I don't agree that Trump can't make huge strides in gutting the resistance. We are all smarter and more prepared than we were in 2016 and nobody is more of both than Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (uxCna)
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And people never break pledges, do they?
A pledge is words.
But how could you do that when whatever you were assigned as was not in the "best traditions of the Department of Justice" at all?
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Turn them over to Fauci. I hear he's got some new sandfly experiences, planned, and is looking for guinea pigs.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
Possibly very interesting by the mid-terms.
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Posted by: L - When do we hit rock bottom? at January 15, 2025 11:12 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 11:12 AM (PCK5/)
Nope. Perhaps after a period of retribution, but for the time being, I'm quite content to let DoJ go after the Democrats.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:08 AM (xCA6C)
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This. Diffuse the bomb after it blows up in the faces of the terrorists.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:13 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: boobs, guns, movies and food at January 15, 2025 11:13 AM (DobEs)
Gavin Newsom and California Democrats reach $50M deal to Trump-proof the state
The first-of-its-kind agreement would fund litigation against the incoming White House and protect against a potential mass deportation of immigrants.
Sounds like prima facie evidence of a RICO violation to me.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (i24o9)
People who work for federal agencies work in the Executive Branch.
Congress can't put conditions on how the President chooses to manage Executive Branch employees.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (uxCna)
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Yes, and other than the military there's no real reason to take any approach other than fire as many as need firing. We're not in favor of a large federal government, so please don't worry that the cuts will somehow be too deep--chop, chop, and chop some more!
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (TN0g+)
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yeah, ok. that is BS and and a last minute effort to funnel money to some NFP, or some shite constituency before they are cut off. But let's dress it up as "resistance".
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: tubal
But you gotta stick around for that guy who tells us that our bitching on this site diminishes us as men, or something.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: Penguin Defense Fund 501c3 at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (G5+As)
I hope the entire DOJ hits the road and start over.
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (Bl7Et)
Congress can't put conditions on how the President chooses to manage Executive Branch employees.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (uxCna)
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And yet, the president can't fire unelected bureaucrats because of civil service laws.
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (PzXaK)
Say I: 2024 referendi: border security, inflation/economy, election security, and an executive who isn't senile.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (hDGNI)
But you gotta stick around for that guy who tells us that our bitching on this site diminishes us as men, or something.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
You’re right, that’s a mandatory…
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)
Only if it concludes with him being stuffed in a torpedo casing and fired into the sun.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
So it begins!
Posted by: The guy who says "So it begins" at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (wyMQY)
Gavin Newsom and California Democrats reach $50M deal to Trump-proof the state
The first-of-its-kind agreement would fund litigation against the incoming White House and protect against a potential mass deportation of immigrants.
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Its cool how these marxist states seemingly have an endless supply of the people's money to spend on political acts rather than actual governance.
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss
What about those of us who prefer ice cream sandwiches?
Posted by: Left Out Again! at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (G5+As)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Scotus has left some leeway for presidents that has not been used. Weiner and Humphrey's Executor only have constitutionally valid protections for regulators that have quasi judicial aka administrative law judges (somewhat undermined by recent Scotus cases), and quasi legislative (aka rulemaking). These can only be terminated for just cause.
Political and managerial staff can be terminated though under Myers v. US which preceded Weiner and Humphrey's Executor cases. Those narrowed presidential firing power for a few categories of officials.
There has never been a direct ruling on the constitutionality of the Pendleton Act and successive additions of government workers to the original act.
But, Scotus has used the due process act to protect government workers by declaring that individual government workers hold a property interest in their jobs requiring due process protections. That has been expanded by Congress and presidents over time to make the rank and file almost impossible to fire.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (ctrM5)
Casino Munkey.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (FoIOl)
I hope the entire DOJ hits the road and start over.
Posted by: Skip at January 15, 2025 11:15 AM (Bl7Et)
The funny part is that he still lost.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (wyMQY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:01 AM (GBKbO)
And then we need to argue that the Constitution vests ALL executive power in the President and, therefore, he has the authority to fire any employee of any executive branch agency for any reason at any time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (ExV1e)
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Oh I get it. It was a tradition, but not one of the "best traditions"
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but the election results raised for the first time the question of the lawful course when a private citizen who has already been indicted is then elected President.
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By a STATE, moron!
Why should the elective ability of the US as a whole be decided by a FUCKING STATE, Asshole!
There's a reason why you have to be in a state to be imprisoned by that state. Or at least have to be in any state where the governor will cooperate with the state.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: illiniwek at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (Cus5s)
Gavin Newsom and California Democrats reach $50M deal to Trump-proof the state
The first-of-its-kind agreement would fund litigation against the incoming White House and protect against a potential mass deportation of immigrants.
Like the guy who was caught by the neighbors with a propane torch trying to light stuff on fire? Come to find out he is illegal and came here under the Obama Adm. He has a rap sheet a mile long including assault and burgulary.
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:06 AM (VE6XX)
Only if it concludes with him being stuffed in a torpedo casing and fired into the sun.
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The Sequel: "The Search for Biden"
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 11:17 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (19xHp)
Being a fly on the wall there proved to me we are ruled by evil people. Weird how they all had oriental wives.
Beer was free so I made them pay. Bigly. Somewhere around here I have the list of attendees. All from State and DOD and some who wouldn't talk to anybody.
Posted by: Reforger at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (hDGNI)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:16 AM (ctrM5)
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The idea that federal employees have a due process right to their jobs seems laughable on its face to me.
It's not a criminal trial. It's employment in a political branch of government.
The president should be able to fire the janitor because he doesn't like the man's hair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 11:19 AM (jFCkp)
un-related: Bondi wore a great girl-boss outfit to today's hearing. Good choice. She doesn't need to wear red to portray herself as a strong person.
Posted by: Gref at January 15, 2025 11:19 AM (aBgBM)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 11:19 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:19 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 15, 2025 11:20 AM (SUOmF)
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Ah, so despite the long tradition cited, the President having been convicted of a "felony" in the opinion of one court (that hasn't even had its full run of appeals!), it doesn't matter if the "felony" is some paperwork "felony".
This, people, is sophistry. Wordy sophistry.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:20 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 11:20 AM (TN0g+)
She also unbuttons more buttons than is normal for a Senate hearing. I'm not complaining.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (xCA6C)
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Plus constitutional due process protections because govt work is regarded as a property interest of the individual worker. You also see this in states and academia with tenure laws.
But, the magic word abrogating civil service laws is defunding agencies aka RIF--Reduction in Force. Reorganization can also reshuffle where and when they report to work. Presidents have never really tried much to rein leviathan in. Dems have civil servants as a core supporting group post New Deal. GOP presidents have normally had other priorities they ranked higher and worked around the bureaucracy to the extent they could.
Congress itself has powers such as reducing a person's salary to one dollar under the Holman rule adopted around the same time that the Pendleton Act was passed.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (ctrM5)
Gavin Newsom and California Democrats reach $50M deal to Trump-proof the state
The first-of-its-kind agreement would fund litigation against the incoming White House and protect against a potential mass deportation of immigrants.
How can Newscum reach a deal with California Democrats to divert 50 million taxpayer dollars to lawfare? "Deal" implies two separate parties with diverse interests agreeing in one narrow area.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
Hell the greatest political leader in living memory.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at January 15, 2025 11:22 AM (SUOmF)
Posted by: Reforger at January 15, 2025 11:18 AM (xcIvR)
Please tell me you dumped a bunch of half-drunk pints into the lawn and kept ordering more because your glass was getting warm.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 15, 2025 11:22 AM (FoIOl)
Well, there's the Left, the Far Left, and the Bats*** Crazy Left.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:22 AM (xCA6C)
Weird, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I cannot find the name of the guy Biden fired... that apparently reversed that interpretation of the civil service rules.
Posted by: MkY at January 15, 2025 11:23 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 15, 2025 11:23 AM (V6W16)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (8zz6B)
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The only quibble between these parties was HOW MUCH to divert.
I assume $50 million was the compromise number.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2025 11:23 AM (7fElN)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:24 AM (xCA6C)
Since great swaths of the wealthy's homes burned to the ground the need for Illegals for maids, cooks, gardners, and baby sitters is greatly diminished..I suppose they will move on
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:24 AM (VE6XX)
Fire him with cause stripping him of all accrued benefits AND prosecute him in a friendly court. And let the bureaucrats know that they've got 3 choices:
1) Do their job as the president tells them to
2) Resign
3) Go to jail
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:25 AM (t0Rmr)
I'll be overjoyed if he (and the Republican congress) merely spend less than Biden and the Dems did.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 11:25 AM (hDGNI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:09 AM
You are correct as far as what Hillary! said, but I believe Brandon upgraded us to garbage, and I was trying to combine the best from the previous 2 leaders of the Democrats.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:25 AM (a3Q+t)
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Fixed.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:25 AM (hC3xx)
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Will never happen.
The Elite lie to me so much that even if we could penetrate all the layers and they are actually doing something for our "own good", you can't give up on your people and at the same time push that they really, really are in a "democracy", as long as we change that meaning.
It is arguably unequivocal that if you have build up a mountain of lies between yourself and the American people, to tell the same people (for their "own good") that they are still in a "democracy", you have without a doubt usurped self-rule.
Thus, you have no legitimacy.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:25 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:09 AM
You are correct as far as what Hillary! said, but I believe Brandon upgraded us to garbage, and I was trying to combine the best from the previous 2 leaders of the Democrats.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I'm still bitterly clinging to my garbage pail.
Posted by: Bulg at January 15, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:26 AM (4tmpE)
What an ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 11:26 AM (W/lyH)
but I hope to be wrong
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (25k9m)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:26 AM (4tmp
Compare Bondi to the Harpies from yesterday screeching at Hegseth...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (VE6XX)
Congress itself has powers such as reducing a person's salary to one dollar under the Holman rule adopted around the same time that the Pendleton Act was passed.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:21 AM (ctrM5)
Thanks for the excellent post.
I look forward to much of the civil service enjoying their 3am work shifts in Alaska where they can research "How to survive in Alaska on $5 a day!"
I'm in Canada. The jabs will have to take our bastards out.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (xCA6C)
It's not a criminal trial. It's employment in a political branch of government.
The president should be able to fire the janitor because he doesn't like the man's hair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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It gets complicated but the idea is that the Pendleton Act grants an employee covered by it or its successors as a property interest (after the probationary period) that precludes them being fired except for just cause.
But, the problem is solved if Congress simply defunds an agency and those employees then have no property interest under due process doctrine. One could make a taking's argument but Congress is regarded as having plenary power over spending. Another is that Congress authorizes the president to reorganize for efficiency as in relocating agencies, merging them, creating new ones, and so on. That is a second way to address the problem. The last is the rubber room tactic where the problem workers are paid to do nothing by promoting or relocating them to a position that has no (or slight) duties.
The constitutional option has not been tried so far.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:28 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: The 2 Bobs at January 15, 2025 11:28 AM (MbNPa)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:26 AM (4tmp
Compare Bondi to the Harpies from yesterday screeching at Hegseth...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (VE6XX)
She throws people off by being so pretty, and then brings out her flamethrower.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:28 AM (4tmpE)
pretty sure this is a textbook flounce
Posted by: anachronda at January 15, 2025 11:28 AM (oY6Yp)
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Outsource the DOJ & FBI to Bukele in El Salvador.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (xhyHC)
but I hope to be wrong
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (25k9m)
Just because you can't win within one term doesn't mean you don't even try.
Posted by: XTC at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (UnA8+)
What a fucking disgrace. Time did matter and that fuck sat on his ass and did nothing. Fuck the doj. Republicans can cut it and get rid of the waste.
Textbook example of "Justice delayed is justice denied"
Depends who he worked for. On paper he was Biden's. On paper he is also republican. We like to keep republicans close, so it's easier to stab us in the back. Hell, we promised our base EVEN MORE REPUBLICANS!.
My 2 words: Garland won. He accomplished exactly what he intended to.
He did what his BOSS, BIDEN and the PARTY, WANTED. Keep trump in play so Biden could run to defeat him a second time! Why isn't this obvious? Biden and his people got railroaded by an AG he could've fired any day? That sounds really bad, incompetent even.
the 2nd report will be more damaging and should be released. It is a disgrace if it isn't.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (ycI94)
That's probably something they would like. I vote no on that option.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (brOX2)
but I hope to be wrong
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (25k9m)
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It is an advisory board with no direct power except the ear of the president and, potentially, members of Congress.
It's taking Rand Paul's Festivus tradition of listing wasteful government spending and putting into an office in the White House.
It should be recommending cuts that the president can make unilaterally as well as programs that need to be cut through legislation and working with Congress to get those cuts in.
We'll see how effective it is, but it's the most concentrated form of cutting government with a foot in the power in living memory. Potentially moreso than Gingrich's Contract with America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
I should email him and tell him he is welcome.
And if Jack Smith gets nonpartisan, retributive butt fucking sometime later, give me credit for that too.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 11:30 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:24 AM (xCA6C)
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They just don't understand the diminished audience for unhinged Democratisms.
A central part of progressivism seems to be the effort to ignore reality.
Saw a thread talking about the prevalence of Trans (NOT) women saying that their bunch looks or ages a whole lot better than cis-females.
And I realized that this is the second-level delusion. Reality isn't confirming your first delusion enough--time for a second-level delusion.
Both complain that straight men don't want to date trans-women, and then declare that trans-woman look so much better than natural women.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:30 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Archimedes
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Optics, bloviating and threatening a pretty woman from a bunch of old fogey bastards is not a good look.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:30 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (VE6XX)
She throws people off by being so pretty, and then brings out her flamethrower.
does she keep flamethrowers in her bewbs, like the fembots in that austin powers movie?
Posted by: anachronda at January 15, 2025 11:30 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: brak at January 15, 2025 11:27 AM (25k9m)
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God willing, President Vance can continue that work.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (krQz2)
That's probably something they would like. I vote no on that option.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM
Locate the room(s) on Adak or Diego Garcia.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (qlOo3)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (Da7Vv)
is that wrong? nobody told me it was wrong.
Posted by: kneel gayman at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (oY6Yp)
It's far too early to say "I was right" but Jack Smith is trying to make it easy on me."
You are so right. Might as just give up now and not bother. It's just not worth it.
black pills for everyone!!
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Cerified dangerous radical. at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (krQz2)
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Should Vance become president in 2029, the single most important thing he can do is to correct the Census Bureau.
The Bureau admitted that it misappropriated 17 House seats in 2020.
The Bureau also did that while still counting illegal immigrants.
Imagine a 2030 Census with those two things fixed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (ycI94)
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Ban incoming.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (qlOo3)
They don't compare but they certainly contrast
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (Da7Vv)
I approve of this idea.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:33 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (xCA6C)
Make them all shoeshine boys for the congressional visitors gallery. And fire them if they act surly to the customers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 11:33 AM (8zz6B)
I'll settle for 1/21/25 at noon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2025 11:29 AM (ycI94)
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Ban incoming.
Posted by: Axeman
Well, now that they're terrified Trump will "weaponize" the DoJ and come after them, they're probably all for cutting it. They'll bring it back when they (sadly, inevitably) regain power.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM (ycI94)
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There should have never been a Temple of Justice at the Fed Level. All law enforcement should be retained by the States not the Feds. But Lincoln, and reconstruction....
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM (jFCkp)
I'll settle for 1/21/25 at noon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Pennsylvania Ave needs to have every lamppost appropriately decorated.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 15, 2025 11:35 AM (N39Ws)
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:35 AM (xhyHC)
Thus, you have no legitimacy.
Posted by: Axeman
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If you care to look for it, YT had an interesting discussion of historian Niall Ferguson several months ago with an Australian audience. The subject was whether politics in the US resemble those of the dying Soviet Union regime in the 80's. One of the markers he used was deaths of despair via suicides, substance abuse deaths, and the declining lifespan for males under the regimes. Another was the age of leaders (this was done Pre Trump) in the WH and Congress. And the third was the fiscal shape that the late Soviet Union was in compared with the US. Sobering.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)
They can drill and frack California until the fires this past week pale in comparison.
They can rip out all the forests and hand over the land to developers, Florida-style.
They can drive out the brown people, and the black and Asian people, or just sink them into the same apartheid they’ve created in Texas, and they will control enough electoral votes if they control California to never have to worry about another presidential election.”
-- Joy Reid
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:35 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it.
Cerified dangerous radical. at January 15, 2025 11:32 AM (89Sog)
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You may not be a Christian. If so, this isn't meant for you.
But Christians might remember that the battle is the Lord's.
I rather think it is because of conservative's resolve to not become all-out political warriors that people can tell the difference between the side that wants to preserve America and the side that wants to turn it upside down and shake the change loose.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:36 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
tell me steiner will come without saying "steiner will come".
Posted by: anachronda at January 15, 2025 11:36 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (FCrpy)
They did have value when first conceived, in that such jobs were patronage and not based on actual objective criteria. IMO the issue became when it's abused to turn civil service jobs into hammocks.
Seems to me there can be a happy medium between ruthless At Will and In For Life. True the bureaucracy isn't going to be decimated as quickly as we'd like though, but maybe a slower pace would be more palatable to the Teeming Horde.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Charles Martel at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (6Gpcl)
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (hDGNI)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (jFCkp)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:31 AM (a3Q+t)
Diego Garcia has a balmy tropical climate, and miles of white sand beaches. Adak FTW.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
Good Sailfish fishing off Diego Gargia. Trick is to reel 'em onboard before the White Sharks chew 'em to pieces.
Posted by: Auspex at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (19xHp)
I'll settle for 1/21/25 at noon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM
Probably needs to be 1202 hours, for the sake of our precious democracy.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (4tmpE)
Yes.. He needs to go
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (VE6XX)
Hillary propped Trump up because she thought he'd be easiest to defeat, rumor has it Biden planned to step down until saw Trump was running again, because he thought he could be America's savior again by finally vanquishing Trump. It would be great if they once again artificially propped-up and protected Trump thinking it would help them, only to have it spectacularly backfire. Again.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: ShainS
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Nope. A Holman rule amendment is in itself a law regarding spending and Scotus pretty much has declared that Congress has almost unlimited power to spend or borrow. Taxing power is forbidden in a few areas aka direct taxes aside from income taxes but secondary taxing power and income tax power is plenary.
No Congress may bind another Congress via ordinary statutes which a subsequent Congress may follow or not if they pass new laws removing the old ones.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:38 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (5hfjS)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (4tmpE)
Harpie # 1 from yesterday
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (PzXaK)
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It was in the interest of government to keep patronage largely unremarkable before civil service laws. There was massive corruption and ineptness, but this was an incentive to keep the government small.
Ever since, government has ballooned with the idea that the feds can do anything because they're "non partisan" or whatever.
The executive branch of the federal government is a political branch of government. It's best to not try and change that (which will never work) or lie about it. It is winnings for elections.
Don't want patronage to affect much? Make sure it's scope is limited. That's the solution.
As with many of our problems today, it ultimately comes down to: government is too big and too centralized. That's where the solutions lie: fixing that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (YIxO9)
1) He wanted to let NYS do the dirty work
2) He wanted Kamel-Toe to win and THEN send Trump to jail
3) His masters wanted Trump to experience lawfare but not send him to prison
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (t0Rmr)
They're already quitting in fear.
Might be a good time for a woobie delivery business.
Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (FhXTo)
‘ Sounds like prima facie evidence of a RICO violation to me.’
All we need is a good prosecutor and a sympathetic court (yes. I know. Tall order)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: Archimedes
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That, plus even the dumbest leftwit knows it looks bad for an old man to try to beat up on a woman, especially a younger and pretty one.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (iFTx/)
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (Yj6Os)
1) He wanted to let NYS do the dirty work
2) He wanted Kamel-Toe to win and THEN send Trump to jail
3) His masters wanted Trump to experience lawfare but not send him to prison
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (t0Rmr)
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Wasn't Trump slowing the process down himself?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:37 AM (PzXaK)
A big problem in the whole issue might just be calling political positions civil service, and turning civil service positions into political positions.
Don't matter what policies you enact or agitate for if your baseline definitions are messed up. Garbage in, garbage out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 15, 2025 11:40 AM (+iIV1)
Posted by: Vidkun Quisling at January 15, 2025 11:41 AM (jiYtH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:41 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 15, 2025 11:41 AM (W5ArC)
Except that the bitter harridans of the left hate an attractive, smart woman with the heat of a thousand suns, and they are the Dem base.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:41 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:42 AM (4tmpE)
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tell me steiner will come without saying "steiner will come".
Posted by: anachronda
We'd have totally convicted Trump of treason, insurrection, and being Super-Hitler. He'd be barred from running for president, executed, and quartered, with his parts displayed on pikes at the farthest corners of the realm.
If only, uh...(mumble numble) hadn't stopped us. Probably John Robert's and the presidential immunity ruling, or something.
Posted by: Jack Smith at January 15, 2025 11:42 AM (ycI94)
I'll settle for 1/21/25 at noon.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 11:34 AM (Q4IgG)
Pennsylvania Ave needs to have every lamppost appropriately decorated.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 15, 2025 11:35 AM (N39Ws)
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Old & Busted: High Noon.
New Hotness: High Swoon.
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:42 AM (u7k2H)
Hope he wins the car!
Damn.
Still has the wheel. Go get em dude.
Mom was buried yesterday. I'm checking out today. I didn't even see her in the casket. No big deal. Mom and I were good. I took care of her for years. My brother has been handling stuff.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (jvJvP)
They did have value when first conceived, in that such jobs were patronage and not based on actual objective criteria. IMO the issue became when it's abused to turn civil service jobs into hammocks.
Seems to me there can be a happy medium between ruthless At Will and In For Life. True the bureaucracy isn't going to be decimated as quickly as we'd like though, but maybe a slower pace would be more palatable to the Teeming Horde.
Posted by: WitchDoktor
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Spoils systems was less problematic than you think or has been reported. The reason is that pols could not longer blameshift very well so they generally used politics to put a head or so but kept on professional workers and underlings to run the show. Sometimes, scandals happened but no more so than with our 'professional' civil service.
Also invigorated political parties for better or worse as you worked for the party and stayed loyal to the party, you got rewarded. Treachery, cowardice, and open malfeasance making you a political problem meant you walked the plank.
If you remember nothing else about economics, incentives matter and proper incentives can lead bad to good.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
I guess when you're too ugly to work in the family whorehouse, politics is the only option left.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
Mom was buried yesterday. I'm checking out today. I didn't even see her in the casket. No big deal. Mom and I were good. I took care of her for years. My brother has been handling stuff.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (jvJvP
Prayers for you and your Family
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:44 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:44 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:44 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:44 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V
The poi brains in Hawaii are lucky to find their way to the ocean without getting lost. They'd vote for a coconut if told to.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 15, 2025 11:45 AM (/U5Yz)
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If true, why would that give anyone the vapors? I don't think Oswald acted alone. I don't think George Floyd was a saint, nor do I believe he was "murdered". I don't think those pallets of bricks just materialized out of thin air in the riots that followed Floyd's death. I don't think Joe Biden ever had 60 consecutive minutes of mental clarity the entire time he was allegedly President.
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)
‘ Congress can't put conditions on how the President chooses to manage Executive Branch employees.’
Did the Supreme Court of 1870s rule that the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional?
If so, that seems like a precedent.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 11:45 AM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:46 AM (jvJvP)
The executive branch of the federal government is a political branch of government. It's best to not try and change that (which will never work) or lie about it. It is winnings for elections.
Don't want patronage to affect much? Make sure it's scope is limited. That's the solution.
As with many of our problems today, it ultimately comes down to: government is too big and too centralized. That's where the solutions lie: fixing that.
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Not sure what is meant by "political branch..."
On the latter, yes those are what need to be solved, but the devil is in the details. Getting from A-B as efficiently as possible with a minimum of pain and fireworks is what needs to be explored. Abandonment of all civil service laws and wholesale turnover of the entire branch every four years creates problems on its own.
As I said, happy medium minding the efficiency/fireworks ratio.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:46 AM (PzXaK)
This is an interesting point - Dems have repeatedly blamed low level employees when they can no longer ignore some scandal. If they are also directly responsible for the appointment of those people then you are right, that doesn't absolve them in any way.
There is one other interesting potential benefit to the spoils system too - leftwing pols can usually get hired by Fedgov and if not they have a legion of NGOs that exist for that purpose. The right has none of that. So if you do something political that gets you fired from your private sector job as a conservative you are screwed.
With the spoils system their would always be a job waiting for you as long as there was an R president...talk about aligning incentives for conservative activists...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 15, 2025 11:46 AM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (ctrM5)
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Well, if it helps I have an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA. I'm not afraid of the big words.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (xCA6C)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V
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Yet this is being depicted totally opposite on the left. We live in two different countries. I hope they start their own secession movements, and we just let them go.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (Dm8we)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:44 AM (VE6XX)
Thanks.
Feeling better. Mom and I are good. Just like Dad and I. No unexpressed thoughts.
Thank you Horde.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:46 AM (PzXaK)
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It is a branch of government elected by the people through their states. It is inherently political in nature, not professional.
It is part of politics, and to pretend its not is to just blindly give power to people who are political but can convince people they're not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:48 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:48 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 11:48 AM (EL2wb)
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Well, where are the junkies going to shoot up now?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 11:48 AM (L/fGl)
In front of the elementary school of course
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:49 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V
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Hawaii is an Indian Reservation run by the Japanese for the benefit of DoD. This should explain things.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 15, 2025 11:49 AM (jFCkp)
Thank you Horde.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM (jvJvP
I'm so sorry. I wasn't aware of your mom's passing. I'm not around the HQ the way I once was. Prayers for you and your family. 🙏🙏🙏
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:49 AM (4tmpE)
I add: so the people can review whether or not his agenda worked and whether or not it was worth it, as input into future Presidential picks.
All this "neutral" crap 1) hasn't WORKED and 2) is fabricated.
However, the President has to run the executive constrained by the laws Congress has made. However, the executive should be able to appeal significant inroads by the Congress on the decisions of the executive in keeping with the vesting of executive power.
It would seem to me that the laws should work to define executive function, not vitiate the vesting.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (krQz2)
I thought that replacing all the US attorneys when a new party/administration comes in was normal. Or it used to be, before Democrats started denouncing it as a nefarious plot by GW Bush.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (xPNeT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM
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Truer words were never spoken, and all that, but I am not optimistic. Rooting out the embedded evil at DOJ is going to take far more than one AG and even one presidential term.
But I pray it happens.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (0KA3/)
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Contrast with Legislative which meets with the same definition then? Frankly, at this point in the game the entire government is political in nature in some degree...
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (PzXaK)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (/U5Yz)
‘ Beer was free so I made them pay. Bigly’
Thank you for your service in the cause of liberty.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (jbnUc)
Truer words were never spoken, and all that, but I am not optimistic. Rooting out the embedded evil at DOJ is going to take far more than one AG and even one presidential term.
But I pray it happens.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (0KA3/)
Beats having Kamala in "charge."
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:51 AM (VE6XX)
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And as Churchill said several decades ago:
"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil."
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:51 AM (NAKF6)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 11:45 AM (g47mK)
I'd guess Soros...one convoluted way or another.
Posted by: BignJames at January 15, 2025 11:52 AM (Yj6Os)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:52 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:53 AM (brOX2)
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 11:50 AM (PzXaK)
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Yes, it all is.
Government is, by definition, political in a system where people elect it.
The DOJ should be political and follow the orders of the president. Also, government bureaucrats should be exposed to criminal liability for breaking laws.
The solution to the problem of the administrative state, to Congress abrogating its duties in expansively written laws that allow the executive to write whatever it wants in regulation, is to make everyone understand that it's political in nature, that any time our government touches any issue or idea, it is inherently political.
"I can't believe you'd inject politics into schools!"
"Well, government funds schools, so it's, by definition, political."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: WisRich at January 15, 2025 11:53 AM (EL2wb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 11:53 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (DobEs)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 11:51 AM (VE6XX)
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no question.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (0KA3/)
Election Wizard @ElectionWiz 1h
⚠️ CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL TO VOTE ON ROLLING BACK SANCTUARY LAW
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (5LoD7)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (brOX2)
Need parts for you Kia, go f*ck yourself round eye.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&&V at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (HabA/)
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Hawaii is as blue as blue can be.
You should know they can play their people like pinball machines.
I like Brandon Straka. I like Walkaway. I like that Straka is now documenting the tendrils of his manipulation going deep into the past. That's all good for us.
Still, the guy is admitting he was bamboozled for most of his life.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (Rcnd3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (4tmpE)
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The Ludacris Cam version of the fight would be appointment viewing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (0KA3/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:49 AM (4tmpE)
Thank you so much!
Especially when you are going through such tough times.
On the plus side, it's so cold in my part of Canada, evem the visiting outdoor cats don't want to go out much. 10 minutes and they're good.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (jvJvP)
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (NAKF6)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (brOX2)
It’s all theater… in the end it’s a club and we’re not in it.
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (PCK5/)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (brOX2)
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I still would have liked to see him in a Presidential debate with Clinton in 2015.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (krQz2)
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Oh look, this LGBTQIA+ activist teacher is facing federal charges for distributing child porn
https://is.gd/OWjv1x
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 11:56 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ... at January 15, 2025 11:56 AM (brOX2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 15, 2025 11:56 AM (19xHp)
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 15, 2025 11:56 AM (V6W16)
If you want to get a hook into this obstruction, there is no better effort than to display some "severed heads on spikes outside the castle gates." Trump failed miserably at this in his first term.
He, and his cabinet, need to make an example of some of the most egregious offenders. This often has a domino effect. Those participating in a cursory fashion (who believe their own personal position salvageable) will turn on those above them. It's a natural progression. This requires a strong protection of whistleblowers (which is, also, a behavior that needs to be reinforced).
Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 11:56 AM (dIske)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (yOsbe)
Thank goodness I'm exempt! As a court found, I'm an opinion person, not a news reporter. “No reasonable viewer could conclude that Maddow implied an assertion of objective fact,”
Posted by: Rachel Maddow at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (ycI94)
‘ prosecuted for deprivation of civil rights under color of law and and thrown into solitary confinement’
I wonder how much our incoming Asst. AG for Civil Rights will deliver in this regard.
Right now I like Harmeet Dhillon. She lives in SF and seems as partisan as I am.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)
As are the Village People. Trump's done more for their YMCA royalties than anything else in the last 40 years.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (2ocoG)
‘ Congress can't put conditions on how the President chooses to manage Executive Branch employees.’
Did the Supreme Court of 1870s rule that the Tenure of Office Act was unconstitutional?
If so, that seems like a precedent.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Nope, they indirectly did so in Myers v. US in the 1920's. Myers was a postmaster of Portland Oregon and apparently did a shitty enough job to get fired under Wilson with litigation continuing until the Harding Administration. CJ was William Howard Taft, a former president, and Taft was in no mood to kiss civil servant's asses in that case.
The 1876 act was similar to the Tenure in Office act but only applied to some postmaster jobs. Both of these acts required Senate approval to remove and so by corollary, the Tenure in Office Act was de facto declared unconstitutional some fifty years later (and was ignored after Johnson survived his impeachment anyway).
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)
Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (FhXTo)
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Handful of couples!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 11:59 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (4tmpE)
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The Ludacris Cam version of the fight would be appointment viewing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:55 A
Steve Inmann's commentary would be gold.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 11:59 AM (+QlJh)
He would be fought in the courts. The SCOTUS would have to agree.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 15, 2025 11:59 AM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: DaveA at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM
Thank you!
On the plus side, I'm finishing some beer today before doing stuff tomorrow. I believe the Horde would approve.
Have a great rest of the week.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:59 AM (jvJvP)
He's done.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 15, 2025 11:57 AM (yOsbe)
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Except that they didn't follow any established legal process to give him the jurisdiction to pry into Trump's life.
I guess their Spy-On-Trump lines were down and they just needed a reason to continue surveillance.
That's one thing Patel could unearth, is that the FIB was spying on Trump since late 2015. And there have been hints that Crossfire-Hurricane was a limited hang-out.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:00 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (4tmpE)
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The Ludacris Cam version of the fight would be appointment viewing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 15, 2025 11:55 AM (0KA3/)
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I wonder which one Kyrsten Sinema would wrassle?
/I'll be in my bunk ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:00 PM (NAKF6)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 11:54 AM (4tmpE)
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Mazie uses the potty all by herself, though.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:01 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:00 PM (krQz2)
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I want Patel and Bondi to reveal that the FBI has been spying on every prominent government official for decades, since it's inception.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Patrick
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They should be. They are as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and he can't be bought or scared off. He's going to claim many scalps and they know it.
Posted by: For consideration at January 15, 2025 12:01 PM (HXZiI)
None but the most far-left are even discussing it.
Most all are embarrassed by how pathetic it was to release it.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:02 PM (q2q1y)
Premiers meeting with Trudeau over tariffs.
Retaliation! Perfect.
Or they could actually try to control the fricking border and be more selective in letting people in.
Nah. Too easy...
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:02 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Patrick
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They should be. They are as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and he can't be bought or scared off. He's going to claim many scalps and they know it.
Posted by: For consideration at January 15, 2025 12:01 PM (HXZiI)
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Kash is not just opposition. He's competent opposition.
He is the reason so much was found out about Crossfire-Hurricane.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (krQz2)
"I can't believe you'd inject politics into schools!"
"Well, government funds schools, so it's, by definition, political."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Exactly so. Well said. Governments are always a necessary evil but some governments go straight to being evil as under the Biden administration (and many blue states).
There is a reason that most actions (other than those that specifically should be addressed at the national level like defense of the country) should be handled at the lowest level of government possible. Even the big cities and school districts should be cut down to size by self managing smaller districts.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (4tmpE)
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"Based On Employee Performance?" That's racist!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
None but the most far-left are even discussing it.
Most all are embarrassed by how pathetic it was to release it.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:02 PM (q2q1y)
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Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:04 PM (krQz2)
‘ Make them all shoeshine boys for the congressional visitors gallery. And fire them if they act surly to the customers’
Hahahahahaha!!!!!
This is the kind of out-of-the-box problem solving that makes you a treasure.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 12:04 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I would change that to spying on everyone. Technology and digital communications just makes it easier to give all of us close federal attention.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:04 PM (ctrM5)
There's no 'middle ground' with these people. Only ground about 6' under.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Unicorns and rainbows all around!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (L/fGl)
"Well, government funds schools, so it's, by definition, political."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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"S'Okay, Trump's getting rid of the Department of Education that you've been using to inject politics into schools for several decades."
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: ripley 7542 at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (oT+t6)
Thank you Horde.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 11:47 AM
Missed that news, Stateless. My condolences for your loss. May her memory be eternal.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (+QlJh)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
$5 says it will last 48 hrs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (azIf+)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (krQz2)
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"Cutting government out of schools is injecting politics into schools!"
-like, 90% of America
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (4tmpE)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
$5 says it will last 48 hrs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (azIf+)
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That long?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
Perhaps...but if nothing else it will be OK now to point and laugh and to highlight their antics.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (4tmpE)
I'm betting the goatrapers violate the ceasefire withing 72 hours.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (8zz6B)
Why shouldn't the subject of policy have politics?
Fucking bloviating cretins.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)
$5 says it will last 48 hrs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (azIf+)
Once they get their 1000 terrorist brethren back and turn over 30 hostages/bodies yes
Posted by: It's me donna at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (VE6XX)
.@PamBondi: "Kash Patel has had 60 jury trials as a public defender, as a prosecutor. He has great experience in the intel department. I have known Kash and I believe that Kash is the right person at this time for this job."
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Ben Had at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (oT+t6)
Posted by: Patrick
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They should be. They are as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and he can't be bought or scared off. He's going to claim many scalps and they know it.
Posted by: For consideration at January 15, 2025 12:01 PM (HXZiI)
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Kash is not just opposition. He's competent opposition.
He is the reason so much was found out about Crossfire-Hurricane.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (krQz2)
You know that this is going very badly for the Dems when the hearings are not simulcast on Bloomberg. They were chomping at the bit to see Hegseth crash and burn, but when that didn't happen yesterday, they decided not to broadcast the slow-motion train wreck for them today.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (uYLU1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 11:59 AM (+QlJh)
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"Down goes Mazie! Down goes Mazie! Down goes Mazie!"
* cue "Move bitch, get out da way. Move bitch, get out da way. Move bitch, get out da way." *
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (r2SS9)
‘ -- Joy Reid’
We can do all of that?!
Goddamn. Let’s get started (except for the racial shit)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (2cS/G)
And OK, but one of our Founding Concepts is that people are greedy self-interested jerks, so controls have to be baked into the system to give bad people incentive to do good things (That's some of my fancy Economics/MBA Book Learnin').
How is that done aside from telling people not to do it..?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (PzXaK)
Why shouldn't the subject of policy have politics?
Fucking bloviating cretins.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (krQz2)
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"Anything I want done isn't political. It's just right."
-like, 90% of humanity
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (+QlJh)
Thank you so much.
She was very loved. Quite a character. She always got great healthcare...in our small part of Canada. The doctors and nurses always liked her.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
Trump is coming.
Hamas will try to finesse Israel by delaying the return, hoping the Israelis will restrain Trump.
Trump won't have it.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 15, 2025 12:09 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: tubal at January 15, 2025 12:09 PM (PCK5/)
AYFKM?
Really?
He should have also contested the count in states he won?!
That's so fucking metal-plate-in-head retarded that only a Democrat would think of it.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 15, 2025 12:09 PM (q2q1y)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
$5 says it will last 48 hrs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (azIf+)
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That long?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
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I think the bet should be $5 whether the "ceasefire" ever even starts . . . .
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 15, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (4tmpE)
I'm betting the goatrapers violate the ceasefire withing 72 hours.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (8zz6B)
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Certainly won't last through the weekend.
Remember, they have Friday mosque services, where they incite their members...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 15, 2025 12:10 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: runner at January 15, 2025 12:10 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:05 PM (krQz2)
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"Cutting government out of schools is injecting politics into schools!"
-like, 90% of America
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 15, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
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That's as good as Perry being charged with significantly changing the way an officer of the state was doing her job by firing her.
I mean that's a big change in her function in that role, granted. But the "argument" could apply to any office, and would eliminate the Governor's ability to fire officers entirely.
It's stupid, yet had purchase in Dems who tried not to stare at it too much.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Lincolntf at January 15, 2025 12:08 PM (2cS/G)
Israel is supposed to release over 1,000 Pali prisoners. If Hamas returns every single hostage, living and dead, promptly turn Gaza into a parking lot.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:10 PM (4tmpE)
* cue "Move bitch, get out da way. Move bitch, get out da way. Move bitch, get out da way." *
Posted by: ShainS
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Heh. Thanks for that, needed a laugh.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Ripley at January 15, 2025 12:11 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 15, 2025 12:03 PM (4tmpE)
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Translation: Iran's supply chain into Palestine is experiencing somewhat of a delay.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:11 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Huck Follywo
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🎵 Yo Bitch. . . GIT OUT THE WAY ...
*Bondi slamdunks hirono face first into the toilet*
Posted by: Ludacris cam live at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (HXZiI)
It's not like Hamas can page everyone telling them to stand down.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (jvJvP)
The "Resistance" types are not going away, and are not going to be quitting on day 1. They're dug in like ticks and will do exactly what they did last time.
That's okay.
They can all be transferred to the new facility in Walrus Tonsil, Alaska.
Or, that new
Posted by: naturalfake at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (iJfKG)
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Is there nothing F. Joe can't do?
/
Posted by: ShainS -- Commie-Caused Conflagrations Created Califzuela's Chernobyl at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (r2SS9)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)
WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
$5 says it will last 48 hrs.
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I'll take the under.
Posted by: Crusader at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
I'd be happier if Hamas surrendered but that's just me.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (WXNFJ)
WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!
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Swell. How many Hamas back on the streets....?
Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 15, 2025 12:13 PM (PzXaK)
‘ I didn't even see her in the casket. No big deal. ‘
I never saw the wish to see your dead relative that way. They always look ‘off’. They sure as hell don’t look like they’re sleeping.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 15, 2025 12:14 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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And, then follow in the footsteps of noted ska musician, Prince Buster.....and got "One Step Beyond."
There needs to be confirmation of this spying, and then detailed interviews with the subjects of the spying to determine just how those politicians behaved based on extortion or bribery. No one should be safe from this clean out....If Republicans acted a certain way based on pressure, they ALSO, need to be exposed....and potentially ruined. I have absolutely no problem with that. Posted by: Orson at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (dIske)
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I saw Gaggle of Scumbags open for the Sex Machine Guns at the Paladium in '75.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (L/fGl)
WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!
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Swell. How many Hamas back on the streets....?
forty-two!
Posted by: deep thought at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (MwvKQ)
DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatari and Hamas officials say that a last-minute dispute in ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas has been resolved.
R A W S G L 🌎 B A L @RawsGlobal 14m
🚨#BREAKING: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, Reuters reported citing official.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 15, 2025 12:15 PM (5LoD7)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 15, 2025 12:07 PM (uYLU1)
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Plus they knew they'd be facing Bondi.
If I had no argument skills better than Dems, and I was facing Bondi, I'd snuff that feed as well.
Hegseth is a question mark on whether he can do the job. But he's probably no worse that the marked failure Austin.
However, Bondi's career is the type of career that preps you for US AG.
Posted by: Axeman at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Ripley
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Since it never went to trial, probably not. You might try looking up the warrant application to Mar a Lago that partially explains what the Federales were looking for (probably redacted). For some reason, don't think it would dare include contents of Melania's lingerie drawer.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:12 P
Thanks so much.
It was very fast. I haven't had a break in years so I'm kind of resting.
Liberal tears and wailing in a few days will ease my heartache.
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (jvJvP)
Every gardener knows that if you want to eradicate the weed so it can't grow back, you have to destroy the root.
Iran is the root.
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 15, 2025 12:16 PM (4XwPj)
Posted by: Archimedes at January 15, 2025 11:43 AM (xCA6C)
That's Rubio's daughter...
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 15, 2025 12:19 PM (V6W16)
Posted by: Stateless at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (jvJvP)
Posted by: Stateless
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Caregiving by a family member like you is the most profound expression of selfless love that I know exists.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (ctrM5)
A lot of executive branch thugs have been openly saying they plan to undermine, disobey, or otherwise thwart Trump.
They did that before, of course - but it's different than last time. Last time, they tried giving people the bullshit high-hat routine about how fucking upright they are.
This time, they're just laying it out: representative government is a threat to Our Sacred Democracy, and they won't countenance it.
It's gonna get real ugly.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM (BI5O2)
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Posted by: Stateless
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Caregiving by a family member like you is the most profound expression of selfless love that I know exists.
Posted by: whig at January 15, 2025 12:20 PM
Thank you so much.
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Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)